VOORHEES, N.J. — Brayden Schenn is going to lose some money for the three-game suspension handed to him by the NHL on Tuesday but he just doesn't know how much.Schenn will be banned without pay for the first three games of the 2016-17 season after the...

When the Philadelphia Flyers hired Dave Hakstol as coach last summer, T.J. Oshie was surprised.
Not because he thought his college coach was unqualified but because Hakstol had spent 11 seasons committed to the University of North Dakota.
"I know how...

PHILADELPHIA — Michal Neuvirth skated off the Flyers' ice to a roar he wanted to hear.Only thunderous cheers came from the fans, not flying objects. With how Neuvirth played, he might have stopped them anyway.Neuvirth had 31 saves in his first start of...

WASHINGTON — Washington's Braden Holtby made 41 saves, Philadelphia's Steve Mason gave up a goal from 101 feet away and Alex Ovechkin scored on the power play and the Capitals beat the Flyers 4-1 in Game 2 Saturday night to take a 2-0 series...

VOORHEES, N.J. — A young team that hasn't been to the playoffs in two years needs all the veteran experience it can get.
Enter the Flyers' defense pairing of Mark Streit and Nick Schultz.
While much of the talk leading into the Flyers-Washington...

PHILADELPHIA — Should Wednesday night's Flyers-Capitals game turn out to be a first-round playoff preview, there are going to be a bunch of real nail-biting games in April.The two teams —one having clinched the Presidents' Trophy, the other scratching and...

WASHINGTON — Maybe asking the Flyers to beat the NHL home-best record Capitals twice in 11 days at the Verizon Center was a bit much.But the Flyers played well enough to hang around all the way to the third period before things started going the wrong...

PHILADELPHIA — Jason Chimera had two goals and an assist to lead the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 victory over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.Washington's Alex Ovechkin remained one goal shy of becoming the top Russian-born goal scorer...

Once the surprise news hit Philadelphia, Flyers die-hards — heck, NHL fans everywhere — all sounded a bit like they should have been Jeopardy contestants.Who is Dave Hakstol?Not even an easy clue have would clued anyone in on Flyers general manager Ron...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis' Brian Elliott and Philadelphia's Steve Mason both earned shutouts, but Elliott picked up the win in a shootout as the host Blues edged the Flyers 1-0 on Thursday night.
Elliott made 28 saves through overtime, and Mason stopped 35...

Alex Ovechkin's first significant play of the night led to a goal for the other team. His pass was intercepted, and Detroit scored short-handed. Ovechkin and the Washington power play would eventually make up for that mistake. Ovechkin scored at 1:56 of...

Alex Ovechkin had a historic night, and now he could use a travel agent. Anything to keep this roll going. Ovechkin scored four goals to become the first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open a season, and the Washington Capitals beat...

A handful of Pittsburgh Penguins players whose names are on the Stanley Cup, some of them twice or even three times, are gone. The same goes for core players from the back-to-back Presidents' Trophy winning Washington Capitals. The goliaths of the East...

After being outspoken about going to the 2018 Winter Olympics no matter the consequences, even Alex Ovechkin has given up and turned his attention to the Beijing Games in 2022. The Washington Capitals' Russian superstar acknowledged the door is closed...

Even with two years left on his contract with the Colorado Avalanche, Matt Duchene's situation is anything but simple. With his name in trade talks at the deadline and then again at the draft, Duchene went about his business playing for by far the NHL's...

It may be the dog days of summer, but it’s never too early to think hockey.
The NHL Network ranked the Top 20 wingers in the game today and, not surprisingly, the Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane was No. 1.
On the list revealed Sunday, Kane topped a group...

The moment Nico Hischier's name rang through the United Center as the first pick of the NHL draft, Nolan Patrick had one thought."I hope I go second," Patrick said.And he did, thanks to the Flyers.It was considered a coin flip between...

Marc-Andre Fleury turned back the clock with a brilliant 29-save shutout, Bryan Rust and Patric Hornqvist scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 2-0 in Game 7 on Wednesday night to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
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Four of the seven teams that had the best regular-season records were eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, as Chicago, Minnesota and Montreal were upset and Columbus (108 points) lost to Pittsburgh (111 points).
There were 18...